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Duplicate plan.
Works authorized.
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(e) During the construction of the said works, such cofferdams, stagings, and other accessory works as may be necessary or convenient for the execution of the enid works, may be temporarily constructed and maintained within the limits specified in sub-section (4).
3. A duplicate of the said plan signol and countersigned as aforesaid shall be deposited in the Land Office.
4. The works authorized by this Ordinance comprise the following, that is to say —
(1) The constructing of a detached rubble-mound breakwater comtiencing at a point about 1,000 feet south by east of the south-western corner of Kowloon Marine Lot 32, and terminating at a point about 900 feet west by north of the north- western corner of Kowloon Marine Lot 49; the said breakwater to be constructed entirely on the sea bed of the Harbour.
(2.) The constructing of a masonry jetty commeue- ing at the western end of Saigon Street, and terminating at point about 150 feet west by north of the point of commencement; the said jetty to be constructed on the foreshore and sen bed of the Harbour.
(3.) The reclaiming of a portion of the foreshore or sea bed adjoining and ring to the south of Kowloon Marine Lot 32, and the protecting of the area so reclained by means of walls and other uccessary works.
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(4.) The levelling and reclaiming of the area of Crown land, foreshore or sen had bounded as follows:-Qu the north by Public Square Street;
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Reclamation east by Street, Kowloon Intud Lots Nos. 563 and 562, and Canton Road; on the south by Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 555 and 559, Bat- tery Street, Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 563 and 565, Canton Road, and Suigon Street; and on the west by imaginary lines connecting a point ou the north side of Saigon Street and about 250 feet distant from the west side of Canton Road with a point on the south side of Public Square Street and opposite to the south-western corner of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 39.
5. It shall be lawful for the Governor to remove, des- Governor for Troy, divert, stop up, raise, lower, enclose, or otherwise alter such streets, drains, sewers, vacant ground, wharves, plers, landing places, rails and other things as may, in the discretion of the Governor, be necessary or desirable for the purpose of effecting the works authorized by this
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6. The Governor shall maintain the said Refuge Works Maintenance out of moneys to be provided from the General Revenue of of works. the Colony.
7. So far as the sail works (including any accessory Past work works) have heretofore beau constructed and maintained, legalized. such construction and maintenance is hereby validated.
8. All public and private rights of navigation or fishing, Determina- and all public and private rights of access, user, possession tion of public or occupation, sud all other public or private rights (if any) and private in, upon, and over such portions of the land, sea bed and rights. foreshore as are or shall be ocupied by the said works, are hereby determined, and shall be deemed to have ceased to exist prior to the commencement of the said works.
9. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be in derogation of Saving rights any of the powers or rights of the Crown in respect of the of Crown. said sen bed and foreshore.
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10. The land, bed of the sea and foreshore levelled or Property in reclaimed under this Ordinance is hereby declared to be reclaimed absolutely the property of the Crown, free from any and sea bet restriction whatever, and may be dealt with and disposed vested in of as any other Crown lands.
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11. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to recog- Foreshore nize any foreshore rights whatever against the Crown, nor rights not shall anything in this Ordinance be deemed to affect any recognized, right or clains us between lussees and sub-lessees or tenants inter se.
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12.-1.) Any of the persons whose names appear in Provision for the Land Office as the registered owners of Kowloon claints for Marine Lots 29, 30, or 31, or of any Section or Sub-section affecting of having a frontage on Reclamation Street of either of the Marine Lots. said Lots or of Kowloon Marine Lot 82 (who are herein- after referred to as the claimants) shall, if they deem that their property may be injuriously affected by reason of its arcess to the sen being interfered with by the works unthoriz- d by this Ordinance, on or before the 31st day of December, 1909, deliver to the Director of Public Works particulars in writing of such injurious affecting and of their claims in respect thereof, and the Governor may, if he thinks fit, award to any such claimant such a sum of money, or such a Crown Lonse of any portion of the area to be levelled and reclaimed under the authority of this Ordinance, as the Governor may in his absolute discretiou think sufficient as and by way of compensation for any such injurious affecting.
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